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authorScott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>2016-02-16 15:42:55 -0800
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2016-03-03 17:40:11 +0000
commitc5b4f69821c7b5ef9047c41198535eb900ea7b94 (patch)
tree9bf773203722b215065ade66f4d2fbde201d4ffd /documentation/ref-manual/migration.xml
parent952bcc7fd5470e534f71150a5a5b36d8b520679e (diff)
downloadopenembedded-core-contrib-c5b4f69821c7b5ef9047c41198535eb900ea7b94.tar.gz
ref-manual, dev-manual: Clarification of "native" and "sdknative"
Fixes [YOCTO #8620] I went through and made some judgement calls on the use of "native" and "sdknative". I tried to make sure that the reader understood the real meaning of these terms. (From yocto-docs rev: d711e8c6dfb32a4ad79e9d11dbf44fbc759d0245) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/migration.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/migration.xml
index 45ac041d92..62f792bf7b 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/migration.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/migration.xml
@@ -97,13 +97,14 @@
<para>
The shared state cache (sstate-cache), as pointed to by
- <link linkend='var-SSTATE_DIR'><filename>SSTATE_DIR</filename></link>, by default
- now has two-character subdirectories to prevent issues arising
- from too many files in the same directory.
- Also, native sstate-cache packages will go into a subdirectory named using
+ <link linkend='var-SSTATE_DIR'><filename>SSTATE_DIR</filename></link>,
+ by default now has two-character subdirectories to prevent
+ issues arising from too many files in the same directory.
+ Also, native sstate-cache packages, which are built to run
+ on the host system, will go into a subdirectory named using
the distro ID string.
- If you copy the newly structured sstate-cache to a mirror location
- (either local or remote) and then point to it in
+ If you copy the newly structured sstate-cache to a mirror
+ location (either local or remote) and then point to it in
<link linkend='var-SSTATE_MIRRORS'><filename>SSTATE_MIRRORS</filename></link>,
you need to append "PATH" to the end of the mirror URL so that
the path used by BitBake before the mirror substitution is
@@ -191,7 +192,9 @@
The suffix <filename>nativesdk</filename> is now implemented
as a prefix, which simplifies a lot of the packaging code for
<filename>nativesdk</filename> recipes.
- All custom <filename>nativesdk</filename> recipes and any
+ All custom <filename>nativesdk</filename> recipes, which are
+ recipes built on the host system to create packages for the
+ target machine, and any
references need to be updated to use
<filename>nativesdk-*</filename> instead of
<filename>*-nativesdk</filename>.